Poker-Mac

We’ve been talking about it for a year or so now, and finally it’s here. The Mac Pokerstars client is out.

I have to say, the design team did a great job with the interface. They took their time getting this put together and it really shows. Very nice Aqua features. Very professional appearance. Playibility is excellent as well and comparable to the PC interface if you’ve been playing using Parallels or Boot Camp. I am psyched to play against Moneymaker, Hachem, Negreanu and ?Boris Becker - rather than Ivey, et. all at Full Tilt (for awhile at least).

Ever since the UIGEA came down, Full Tilt has been the place to play on a mac. You can play on Parallels and bring PokerTracker into the game. Or you can play on OS X, save your results and transfer them over to PT on WinXP at a later time. Either way, FTP has had the highest quality client for a long time. It’ll be interesting to see what the competition from Pokerstars brings to the Mac Poker world.

There are definitely differences between the two - Pokerstars has a bunch of new games for us to play. 5-card draw, 2-7 Triple draw, as well as HORSE and HOSE, which have been at FTP for awhile. Some new tourneys to add to the schedule — I’m looking forward to playing the Sunday Million and WCOOP.

Loading is not significantly different than Full Tilt. The options are: instant e-checks, epassporte, VISA, Mastercard, Diner’s Club, CashTransfer, Money Order. Of these, I’ve only used epassporte, which works well at FTP as well. Though, it does take a week or so to go through. Keeps the bankroll rebuys to a minimum, I suppose. But right now I wish it was instant — can’t wait to get on and play at Pokerstars.

The one thing I ought to mention is that if you’ve been using the beta client on pokerstars.net, it won’t automagically upgrade to the .com client. So you will need to go to the main Pokerstars.com page to download the new client. See you on the tables…